This blog entry is a year old now and I'm sure that progress has been made since then but it discusses some of the issues in respect of FF performance in OpenBSD:
http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/firefox-vs-rthreads
I think it is important to recognise that the speed gains enjoyed by other operating systems will almost certainly inflict a cost in other areas.
Or to quote fortune(6):
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Speed is subsittute fo accurancy.
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